Margaret Escamilla was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1954. One of nine children, she was raised in a military family and lived in several countries. After she married her husband in 1971, she moved to the Globeville neighborhood of Denver,...

In 1954, David Oletski, was born at 4920 Logan Street in the Globeville neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. One of six children, he was raised in a large extended family of Polish Catholics. At the time of his grandmother’s death in 1978, he had...

Judy Hinojosa Montero was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1952. After her parents divorce, her mother remarried and her step-father moved the family to Denver, Colorado in 1954. Judy attended Bryant-Webster Elementary School in Denver. The...

View of the Women's Bean Project, located in the restored Denver Fire Department No. 10 building (1928), at 3201 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The former fire station, a two-story red brick building, has a...

Detailed view of the front entrance of the Women's Bean Project, located in the restored Denver Fire Department No. 10 building (1928), at 3201 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The former fire station, a two-story...

Photograph taken as part of Denver's West High School's motion picture project entitled "How to Find a Job in Denver". Photograph is of several unidentified students leaning over, sitting on or around a table watching filming for the project. In...

View of the entrance to the west portal of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel of the United States Reclamation Bureau Colorado Big Thompson Project water diversion tunnel in Grand County County, Colorado. A sign reads: "West Portal Continental Divide Tunnel,...

Woodworking project at Wyman Elementary School in Denver, Colorado. Four children work together on a woodworking project, two boys and two girls. The first boy uses a hammer to attach two pieces of wood together, while the second boy holds one of...

Photograph of students from South High School in Denver, Colorado during a moving picture project called "Recreation in Colorado". Two students work with a camera while several students stand on a hiking trail that runs along a river.

Photograph of several students from South High School in Denver, Colorado, hiking along a mountain trail. Behind them is a lake. Two students stand filming the students as the walk as part of a school Motion Picture Project.

Photograph of an unidentified female student from South High School in Denver, Colorado, laying in the snow while wearing snowshoes. This picture was taken as part of the South High School Motion Picture Project.

Photograph of seven unidentified students from South High School leaving the Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado. This picture was taken as part of the South High School Motion Picture project.

Photograph of four unidentified students standing along a small ridge while skiing. Another student sits toward the bottom of the ridge pointing a movie camera towards them for part of the South High School's Motion Picture Project.

Photograph of several unidentified South Denver High School students hiking during the filming of a motion picture project on hiking. The students walk up a small glacier covered hill towards a film camera on a tripod.

Photograph of three unidentified female students from South High School in Denver, Colorado standing in front of the school with bows and arrows. An unidentified male and female student stand with their backs to the camera filming the girls as...

Photograph of three unidentified female students from South High School in Denver, Colorado jumping rope. A male student lays on the ground in front of them, filming them as part of a motion picture project.

James Ward, an African-American (Black) principal from Manual High School at 28th (Twenty-eighth) and Franklin Streets in the Whittier neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, speaks with Denver Urban Renewal Authority officials, Manual students, and...

Young children participate in an elective project at Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary School in Denver, Colorado, re-named Crofton School in 1959. Several young boys participate in an elective project wearing straw hats, dark vests and a piece of...

Young children work on an art project at Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary School in Denver, Colorado, re-named Crofton School in 1959. Three young boys and two young girls work on an art project using brushes and paint.

African Americans Omar Blair, representing the Denver Urban Renewal Authority and the Rev. Cecil W. Howard, of the Shorter Community AME Church, along with Denver Mayor William H. McNichols hold shovels at the ground breaking for the Denver Urban...

Susan Lynn Knapp was born in 1949 in Denver, Colorado. Her family had lived in the Globeville and Swansea neighborhood for several decades, within a few blocks of each other, and owned several family businesses together. Her father and his...

View of a "Putting America to Work" sign located near the coke oven restoration project at Redstone, Pitkin County, Colorado. The sign states: "Project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Governor Bill Ritter, Jr." In the...

View of the West Portal of the Continental Divide Tunnel (Alva Adams Tunnel), a part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, during construction on the east end of Grand Lake in Grand County, Colorado. The work was undertaken by the United States...

Hispanic American men. employed on a WPA road project, pose near a tractor and a road grader on a dirt road probably in Costilla County, Colorado. The men wear work clothes and broad brimmed hats. The man who stands on the road grader is...

Main Street, Montrose, Montrose County, Colorado, patriotically decorated with flags, bunting and a welcome arch for President William H. Taft. President arrived by train for the dedication of the Gunnison Water Diversion Tunnel, a United States...

Home economics students construct a model of a home in a Sterling High School class in Logan County, Colorado. Four girls, two sitting and two standing, work on the project. A fifth girl works on a sewing machine on the other side of the room. ...

Close-up view of a "United States Reclamation Service Uncompahgre Valley Project Progress Chart." Map shows preliminary and final canal and road routes for the Gunnison Tunnel and canal project in Montrose County, Colorado. Map shows townships,...

Photograph of five students from Fairmont Elementary School gathered around a class project of a panorama of the Westward Movement. Two unidentified girls stand to the side of the table with one girl holding a pointer and pointing at an object. ...

Photograph of young children at Teller Elementary School in Denver, Colorado during a class project. A girl is working on a project with sticks at a desk alone. Behind her another girl is seen working at a desk with sticks.